Orchard Management Workshop with Jeremy Turkington

Date: Saturday 22 February 2025

Time: 10am to 4pm

Venue: Kane’s Farm, Boconnell Lane, Lurgan

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Join us for this hand’s-on orchard management workshop which will provide participants with the opportunity to learn the dos and don’ts of orchard maintenance including how and when to prune trees of different ages, how to maintian soil fertility and assess general tree health.

The workshop will be facilitated by Jeremy Turkington of Hometree in a small orchard attached to Kane’s Farmhouse, located at Boconnell Lane, Lurgan. This orchard has a range of trees from 10 years to 60+ years that display many of the issues taht you owudl encounter in traditionally orchard.

Places for this workshop are free but limited.

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ABOUT JEREMY TURKINGTON

Jeremy has an Honors Degree in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry and a foundation degree in Rural Development and Countryside Management. He is an arborist with 17 years experience across the ecological and environmental charity and land based sectors in Ireland, specialising in ensuring genetic integrity of Forest Reproductive Material in Irish tree nurseries and fostering a consciousness of our indigenous trees and wild woodlands at local level. He has conducted research into improving biodiversity at a catchment scale without the use of subsidies.  He formerly worked as the orchard curator for Irish Seed Savers.